Opinions on using 23" Cinema Display instead of TV?

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jennneal1313

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Hello everyone!

Rather-newbie-to-Macs here, so please bear with me.

I have a Mac mini hooked up to my 23" Cinema Display, a 17" G4 Powerbook, a bluetooth mouse and keyboard, a decent 27" flat screen TV, digital cable and a DVR/TiVo-ish box.

I'm thinking that the cinema display is so amazing that using the TV is a waste of time when I could be drooling over my cinema display.

I've heard of the EyeTV to use my cinema display to view and record TV, but are there better/cheaper options available? Are there seamless ways to use my display as the monitor for my Powerbook when at home and also watch digital TV?

On a side note, I seem to be a bit slow here, but I cannot get iDisk to sync the way I want it to; I want to have my Powerbook reflect (mainly document and desktop) changes whenever I sync, but only my laptop shows up in the list of sync devices, so I'm assuming the problem is somehow connected to that.

THANKS!
 
There are TV tuners you can hook up directly to LCD displays. Then you don't get the recording stuff, though. It'll simply make your LCD display a TV. I don't know about those items' prices, but I'd prefer the eyeTV any day. Even when you _don't_ want to record TV shows, it's still nice to be able to have a TV window somewhere on your large desktop while browsing the web, working on other stuff etc.
 
yes but is there an alternative to eye TV that does the same sort of thing? i don't like the idea of a monoploy...
 
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